Karen Gresty

University of Plymouth | UoP · Faculty of Science and Engineering

This paper contributes to the development of learning and academic analytics in Higher Education (HE) by researching how four graphical visualisation methods can be used to present student assessment and feedback data to five stakeholder groups, including students, external examiners and industrialists. The visualisations and underlying data sets a...

The PEP project was a multi-institutional HEFCE funded project led by Kingston University conducted over the academic year 2014/15 to investigate the expectations and attitudes towards postgraduate taught (PGT) study in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects. The majority of the HEFCE funding was used in the award of scholarship...

Purpose The objective of this study was to determine the relationships of peak oxygen uptake (VO_2peak), power at VO_2peak and power at the anaerobic threshold (AT) with national ranking in a sample of British high performance junior surfers. Methods Eighteen male surfers (aged 15.4 ± 1.4 years) from the British Junior Surfing...

Reported benefits of research-informed teaching include enhanced student engagement and graduates that are better prepared for employment in an uncertain world. However, there are a number of academic risks that can have both positive and negative impacts on staff and students when implementing research-informed teaching. Mitigating such risks coul...

This study investigated the effects of wave conditions on performance and the physiological responses of surfers. Following institutional ethical approval 39 recreational surfers participated in 60 surfing sessions where performance and physiological response were measured using GPS heart rate monitors. Using GPS the percentage time spent in surfin...

Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the anthropometric profiles of male surfers and to investigate the relationship of these measures with performance and ability. Following institutional ethical approval, 79 male surfers underwent anthropometric assessment. These surfers composed of three sub-groups of professional (n=17; age: 34.12, s...

There is now considerable support in the higher education literature for research-informed teaching as a means of improving student learning, particularly where this involves students as co-investigators. Such an approach, however, comes with a number of risks that have received little pedagogic attention. This paper addresses that knowledge gap by...

Current changes to policy around higher education in the United Kingdom are leading to an increasingly marketised system. As funding is transferred from the United Kingdom government to the individual student, universities will be required to pay more attention to marketing. This paper draws on the literature relating to marketing of services to as...

This article reports the findings of a science e-journal initiative to publish undergraduate research, and assesses student evaluations of this experience. Students in this (post-1992, non research-intensive) institution overwhelmingly reported that research was a key feature of their course at the point of the e-journal introduction, and that they...

The colour of sportswear has been shown to influence the outcome of bouts for several different combat sports. The generality of these effects, and whether they extend to collaborative forms of contests (team sports), is uncertain. Since 1947, English football teams wearing red shirts have been champions more often than expected on the basis of the...

Much of the extant research and evaluation of educational technology has involved some form of retrospective account elicited from users, e.g. questionnaire or focus group discussion of the perceived value of the resource. Whilst these data are useful and can potentially provide information on barriers to the use of e-resources, such accounts are l...

This paper reports the findings of a small‐scale study that investigated student nurses’ use of an online resource in Biology. The think‐aloud method was used to explore in detail the ways in which students engaged with this resource and to evaluate the ways and extent to which it might enhance their learning. The students generally expressed posit...

Health-care professionals need an appropriate genetics knowledge base to care for patients and their families. However, studies have indicated that nurses and midwives lack the requisite genetics knowledge to practice effectively and safely, with a paucity of resources to address their educational needs. This paper describes an action research stud...

E-learning is increasingly being used in higher education settings, yet research examining how students use e-resources is frequently limited. Some previous studies have used the think-aloud method (an approach with origins in cognitive psychology) as an alternative to the more usual questionnaire or focus groups, but there is little discussion in...

The aim of this project was to develop and evaluate an online resource designed to improve the biosciences knowledge of preregistration nursing students. A number of studies have identified lack of biological subject knowledge and anxiety about studying biosciences as serious problems for nursing students. The availability of a contextualized biolo...

The fish parasite Argulus japonicus Thiele (Crustacea: Branchiura) has recently been introduced into Britain and is now established in the wild. A. japonicus, an ectoparasite attaching to, and feeding on, the skin of its host, is a potentially serious pathogen of native freshwater fishes. The anatomy of the attachment and feeding structures is desc...

Mytilicola intestinalis is a parasitic copepod in the intestine of the blue mussel Mytilus edulis. The copepod midgut was examined by means of transmission electron microscopy to determine whether gut cell structure resembled that of other copepods in which the alimentary system is functional. Several characteristic cell types were found in the mid...

Special volume (1991): Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Copepoda, in the Bulletin of the Plankton Society of Japan. Mytilicola intestinalis inhabits the digestive tract of the commercially important European blue mussel Mytilus edulis. Early researchers believed that Mytilicola damaged the host by feeding directly upon the epi...